Guro/Baule Female Figure, Côte d'Ivoire

Guro/Baule Female Figure, Côte d'Ivoire
height 23in (58.4cm)

Provenance
Mario Fantin Collection, Bologne/Florence
Paolo Morigi Collection, Lugano (No.432)
Sotheby's, Paris, 6 June 2005, Lot 77
Graham Beck Collection, South Africa
Thence by descent

Standing upright on slightly bent knees, toes delineated; broad rounded shoulders with arms down at her sides away from the torso with an exaggerated umbilicus and wearing a carved loin cloth wrapped around her waist; the rounded head with a coiffure painted black and with rounded projections; the face with a determined expression with pursed lips, slightly downcast almond-shaped eyes below arching brows and a forehead decorated along the hair line, temples and cheeks with raised and incised scarifications; glossy, light-brown and reddish patina.